A radical love story for right now, from 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times)
Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by
Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and
didn't work out.
Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in
a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford
University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her
first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her
own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She
scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later
she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy
When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as
well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is
Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives
in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to
prove it.
A riotous reimagining with an energy and passion all of its own
that reanimates Frankenstein as a cautionary tale for a
contemporary moment dominated by debates about Brexit, gender,
artificial intelligence and medical experimentation… While the
story has a gripping momentum of its own, it also fizzes with
ideas.
*Financial Times*
A riotous reimagining with an energy and passion all of its own
that reanimates Frankenstein as a cautionary tale for a
contemporary moment dominated by debates about Brexit, gender,
artificial intelligence and medical experimentation… While the
story has a gripping momentum of its own, it also fizzes with
ideas.
*Financial Times*
Here, hard science and dreamy Romanticism exist in both tension and
harmony… Frankissstein abounds with invention… this is a work of
both pleasure and profundity, robustly and skilfully structured,
and suffused with all Winterson’s usual preoccupations – gender,
language, sexuality, the limits of individual liberty and the life
of ideas.
*Guardian, *Book of the Week**
A modern take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, it’s a fascinating
and engrossing look at AI, science, gender fluidity and,
ultimately, what it really means to be human.
*New Statesman, *Books of the Year**
Yes, the book we have all been waiting for. Yes, everything
Winterson has always done so well. Yes, above and beyond anything
that is yet to be written.
Astonishing. Bold. Teeming with wit and intellectual prowess.
Winterson is a literary giant. She remains one of my favourite
writers.
Winterson has had a surge of inventiveness… Frankissstein gamely
links arms with the zeitgeist. {it} is a book that seeks to shift
our perspective on humanity and the purpose of being human in the
most darkly entertaining way… gloriously well observed .. I found
myself vibrating with laughter.
*Observer, Book of the Day*
Winterson reboots Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for the 21st Century,
launching us into a hold-on-to-your hat modern-day horror story
about very modern-day neuroses and issues.
*BBC News*
Intelligent and inventive… Frankisstein is very funny. There has
always been a fine line between horror and high camp, and this is a
boundary that Winterson gleefully exploits.
*The Times*
Refreshingly, Jeanette Winterson’s Frankisstein… is a wildly
inventive reimagining of one of science fiction’s most beloved
stories… lyrical, gloriously raunchy, pulpy and absurd.
*New Scientist*
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